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Stoat   Listen
noun
Stoat  n.  (Zool.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stoat" Quotes from Famous Books



... concerned, the larger forest animals have vanished almost as completely. The Elk and Bear, the Boar and Wolf have gone, the Stag has nearly disappeared, and but a scanty remnant of the original wild Cattle linger on at Chillingham. Still the woods teem with life; the Fox and Badger, Stoat and Weasel, Hare ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock

... who has followed me so far will need to be told that I take no interest in white-washing Shakespeare: I am intent on painting him as he lived and loved, and if I found him as vicious as Villon, or as cruel as a stoat, I would set it all down as faithfully as I would give proof of ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris



Words linked to "Stoat" :   shorttail weasel, ermine



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